overheating

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:08 pm

My mates just bought a van, he will be joining the club soon.

He drove it back from derbyshire to stockport no problem.

next day it overheated and needed lots of water for no apparent reason.

no heater controls had been moved (ie from hot to cold). So no reasonable explantion.

It now looks ok, not lost anymore water, but worryingly overheating smell,

so he is twitching a bit. No oil in water and no evidence of water in the oil.

Any suggestions Duncan

haydn callow · Post by **haydn callow** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:19 pm

Don't drive it again till the cooling system has been bled by someone who knows how to bleed a bongo properly

Peg leg Pete · Post by **Peg leg Pete** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:16 pm

If you have added plain water, you need to replace with the correct strength of coolant, First check for any leaks, once confident that no water loss,Drain system and flush, fill with coolant and bleed the system.

flippa · Post by **flippa** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:28 pm

sound advice

if your pals planning on keeping it and he ,s planning to do his own maintanance on it then nows probably the time to get to know it......if you have overheated then something is up

....read the factsheet on coolant/ draining /refilling....take off the undercover when looking for leaks ....as you can easily miss the water pump leaking.....don,t waste the new coolant till you have found the leak .....tell him to sign up and ask plenty of questions ....good luck ...i hope you crack it(oops)